Reporter tells of run-in with Bryant’s wife
You may have heard the reports by now. Internet sites are abuzz about the tongue-lashing Vanessa Bryant, wife of Lakers star Kobe, recently gave to an ESPN reporter.
It appears the full blog has been taken down, but here’s an excerpt of reporter Laura Lane’s take that appeared on mediatakeout.com:
So as I’m walking out of the Lakers locker room after some post-game interviews, I pass Vanessa, who is sitting with her two girls.
“Laura!” she screams. “(Bleep) you! You (bleeping) (bleep)!”
Her daughters — ages 5 and 2 — sat looking at their mom as she screams. “(Bleep) you! How dare you write about me and my daughters and their schedule. You have no journalism ethics! (Bleep) you!”
“Join the club, this means you’ve arrived,” said one reporter when word spread of my run-in with Vanessa. “She’s insane,” said another. “Everyone knows it.”
Ex-Eagle is Canseco’s first opponent in ring
Jose Canseco will fight former Eagles return specialist Vai Sikahema, currently the sports director for the Philadelphia NBC affiliate, in a match set for a July 12 card in Atlantic City.
“I imagine the reception will be mixed,” Canseco said. “But the curiosity factor is going to be incredible. Whether people want to see someone kick my butt, or me kick someone else’s butt, I guarantee there will be interest.”
Maybe even enough for Canseco to launch a nationwide tour and catch the eyes of network-TV types looking for reality programming.
The fortune Canseco amassed from baseball is mostly gone and that’s why he’s entering the ring. But he says that’s not all of it.
“I’ve always been a boxing fan,” Canseco said. “I have a lot of respect for some of the heavyweight champions [and] I’ve always wanted to give boxing a try.”
— Philadelphia Daily News
Another title for NU has Hiller’s star rising
It has become a rite of late spring: Northwestern wins an NCAA women’s lacrosse championship, and another school tries to hire away Wildcats’ head coach Kelly Amonte Hiller.
Maryland made her an offer in 2006 and Harvard approached NU in 2007. This year’s top opening? Stanford, although its athletic director, Bob Bowlsby, said Tuesday the Cardinal has not asked permission to speak with Amonte Hiller ”and I don’t know that we would.”
Added Bowlsby: ”We had what we think was our last candidate on campus today. You always wait until late in the process to go after a coach of her stature, if you go after them at all.”
Hiller has three years remaining on a five-year contract.
— Philip Hersh
